Italy quake death toll nears 250The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to 247 on Thursday amid fears many more corpses would be found.
25 August 2016
18 dead as Italy struck by powerful quakeA powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake devastated mountain villages in central Italy on Wednesday, leaving at least 18 people dead and many more unaccounted for.
In US gun control, not all laws are equalGun deaths in the United States can be slashed by 90 percent through universal application of laws requiring background checks of buyers.
Death toll in Pakistan factory collapse set to rise: officialRescue crews resumed digging through the rubble of a collapsed factory in Pakistan as officials said they expected to find at least two dozen more bodies, with the death toll standing at 23.
Investigators probe deadly Russian plane crash in EgyptInternational investigators have begun probing why a Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed in a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing everyone on board in one of the deadliest Airbus incidents of the past decade.
01 November 2015
China's smoking death toll to double to 2 million in 2030: studyCigarette smoking will kill about two million Chinese in 2030, double the 2010 toll, said researchers who warned of a "growing epidemic of premature death" in the world's most populous nation.